0 (the use of) unpleasant remarks intended to hurt a person’s feelings -- sarkasmus
On the other hand, in the lessons with girls and working-class students, she finds more indirection, related to covert discipline strategies or to sarcasm as a control mechanism.
For example, if a compliment is uttered in a mocking tone, it loses its sincerity because the sarcasm overrides the form and literal content of the message.
On the micro level, the teacher draws attention to contradictions, irony, humor, and sarcasm in search of charged linguistic expressions that are the product of deeply ingrained values.
Irony, sarcasm, and humour are some of the attitudinal effects available through the creative use of idiomaticity.
Unable to use such devices as 'sarcasm' and 'banter', she had to resort to other means to assert her authority.
People feel that it makes them vulnerable to sarcasm and irony.
Humor or sarcasm are sometimes used to reject other family members in high scoring families.
Differential effect of right- and left-hemisphere damage on understanding sarcasm and metaphor.
